NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Health and Safety Leadership Excellence

This qualification is for senior business leaders or anyone who aspires to this role in the future. It will help you become a better health and safety advocate and leader, by highlighting the key areas to focus on to make a difference.

Health and Safety leadership is an essential skill, therefore it is relevant for all business leaders working in any sector, anywhere in the world.

The NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Health and Safety Leadership course is ideal for employees in senior positions, for example, Board Director, H&S Director, Operations Director, HR Director, Finance Director, Health and Safety Executive, or anyone who aspires to become a senior leader in the future. It will help delegates become a better health and safety advocate and influencer by highlighting the key areas to focus on to make a difference.

Employers will gain a number of benefits from giving their business leaders the opportunity to take this NEBOSH HSE course, including:

• Leadership that reflects HSE’s model of effective health and safety leadership
• Health and safety will be factored into business decisions in the future
• Leaders who recognise how their own behaviours impact on health and safety culture

The NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Health and Safety Leadership Excellence has been designed to help you become a better advocate of health and safety in your business. The course content covers the following topics:

• What health and safety leadership means,
• The moral, legal and business reasons for good health and safety leadership,
• The links between health and safety leadership and culture,
• What the different leadership styles are,
• How human failures can impact performance and culture,
• The HSE’s model of effective health and safety leadership,
• How leaders can build effective relationships with the workforce.

The one day NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Health and Safety Leadership course highlights the moral, legal and financial reasons for good health and safety leadership. It offers guidance on the key areas to focus on to make a difference and how leaders can become better advocates and influencers in relation to health and safety.

The syllabus for the course covers:

• What health and safety leadership means
• The moral, legal and financial reasons for good health and safety leadership
• The links between health and safety leadership and culture
• What the different leadership styles are
• How human failures can impact performance and culture
• The HSE’s model of effective health and safety leadership
• How leaders can build effective relationships with the workforce

We aim to ensure that all of our courses are engaging and provide real world examples that you can use to develop your learning, by applying what you learn to your own organisation.

The HSL1 assessment will be in the form of reflective statements. Showing how the delegate’s knowledge, skills and behaviours may have both positive and negative effects on health and safety performance in their organisation.

Delegates will also need to make a commitment to a leadership intervention that will improve health and safety management within their sphere of workplace influence.

The NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Health and Safety Leadership course takes approximately 7 hours of study to complete. This involves 6 hours of taught and 1 hour for the assessment.

• When studying through classroom, in-house, or virtual classroom learning, the course is typically completed in a single day.

You should plan your study around a minimum of 7 taught hours and approximately 3 hours recommended pre-course reading.

This course is supported by a NEBOSH Study Guide, which covers the course syllabus and content in detail.

It is not only helpful for learners studying the qualification, but also an invaluable reference source for senior business leaders or anyone who aspires to this role in the future.

The book contains practical activities, case studies and key terminology definitions. It can be used during a taught course or as a reference once studies are completed. Health and Safety Leadership Excellence should help health and safety leaders understand their responsibilities and leadership style, as well as giving pointers on building relationships with the workforce. NEBOSH hopes the book will also become a valuable reference source once the leader is back in the workplace.

The NEBOSH Study Guide is available as both a hardcopy and an e-book for all learners taking the course.

If this is your first NEBOSH Certificate-level qualification, you may be interested in taking another NEBOSH Certificate qualification, such as the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety or the NEBOSH Certificate in Fire Safety.

There are no entry requirements for this NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Health and Safety Leadership course.